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Pedal Steel Like You've Never Seen It Before: Roosevelt Collier, "Supernatural Encounters"

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Blind Frog Belly White2/24/2018 9:27:24 am PST

I saw a post on FB, on George Takei’s feed, about a ‘Women of Color Only’ retreat in Costa Rica, and it mentioned that, of course, there was the expected bitching about it being sexist and racist.

My thought? How nice must it be to spend even a few days not having to be black in white America, and a woman in a man’s world. Some place where nobody’s going to touch your hair without asking, or look at you and assume you grew up poor. Where you don’t have to balance every interaction with a man between being pleasant and appearing to invite a relationship. Being yourself without having to be somebody else’s vision of who you should be, or not be someone’s vision of who you must be.

We who are the ‘Default’ have a difficult time imagining what it must be like not to be the Default.